Mrgoat, if by 'total rip off' you mean ...
"It's another way to hand out your business card, as BizCardMagic has allowed me do do for years"
.. then I suggest you take a chill pill before throwing accusations around.

We were made aware of BizCardMagic about 3 months into the development of Card Now. We got straight in touch with Carl Andrews (developer of BizCardMagic) back in March and got his blessing to go ahead with it. He is also credited within the app.

If you believe that everyone who sells a new revelation of ambitious card is 'ripping off' the creator of the ambitious card, then there's not a lot I can say. If no one developed ideas further than the place they started, it would be a sad state of affairs.

Card Now is significantly different to BizCardMagic. I have absolutely no problem with you preferring the older app. Please don't accuse us of ripping anybody off.

Damian Surr wrote:Mrgoat, if by 'total rip off' you mean ..."It's another way to hand out your business card, as BizCardMagic has allowed me do do for years".. then I suggest you take a chill pill before throwing accusations around.

No, I mean it is a total rip off. The effect, the method, the whole thing.

Damian Surr wrote:If you believe that everyone who sells a new revelation of ambitious card is 'ripping off' the creator of the ambitious card, then there's not a lot I can say.

Oh goody! Straw men already!

No, I don't believe that if someone comes up with a new ending for an ambitious card it is a rip off. But I do believe if you take an existing app and duplicate its method and effect then that is a rip off. Credited or not.

Damian Surr wrote:If no one developed ideas further than the place they started, it would be a sad state of affairs.

Another straw man. Great. Where do I suggest one shouldn't develop an idea?

Damian Surr wrote:Card Now is significantly different to BizCardMagic. I have absolutely no problem with you preferring the older app. Please don't accuse us of ripping anybody off.

And you're basing this on what? Watching a 50 second video? I didn't realise you'd done so much research before jumping to opinions.

Even in the short video, there are plenty of differences to be seen, but here are the main ones ...

1) It's tricky to get the image of your business card into your phone with BizCardMagic. You need to get an image of your card onto your computer, tweak it there, then transfer it to your iPhone. Too many stages for the app generation. With Card Now, everything is done within the app! Jakob has worked very hard on this. You photograph, crop, enhance and scale the image all inside of the Card Now app!

2) In BizCardMagic, there's only one way to produce the image of the card on your phone. That involves opening the app and keying in a code. In Card Now, there are currently two production methods (many more are planned for future versions of the app). Both of these appear to make your iPhone do something that no other iPhone is capable of. One where your card 'prints out' on top of your home screen. The other makes all of your home screen icons flip over and morph into an image of your business card. Neither look like an app is running, unlike BizCardMagic.

3) I found that even though BizCardMagic could produce my business card, I wasn't using the app. The reason was because it looked and felt a little dated to me. This is obviously subjective, but it was important enough to stop me performing an effect that I wanted to perform.

4) There's no gravity in BizCardMagic. Shaking an object around in Card2phone is just plain fun! That's all built in to Card Now.

5) We can add more cool stuff because we coded it The list of things we want to add to Card Now is long (next version is well into development).

Pretty much all magic effects are built on what went before them. Crediting is important, which is why Carl's name and app are in the acknowledgements.

I completely agree that the fundamental purpose of the two apps are the same. They both want to put a business card in someone's hand in a memorable way. The list of enhancements above is what makes Card Now different to BizCardMagic.

Damian Surr wrote:1) It's tricky to get the image of your business card into your phone with BizCardMagic.

It's not tricky at all. And added to which, who wouldn't have a jpg/png whatever of their own business card on their computer? Obviously the image file will be much better than taking a photo and having to use your phone for all the cropping and scaling rather than a computer.

Damian Surr wrote:2) In BizCardMagic, there's only one way to produce the image of the card on your phone. In Card Now, there are currently two production methods.

So, you can use a printing app, or you can suddenly make a card appear over your home screen.

Not really much of a difference, is it?

Damian Surr wrote:3) I found that even though BizCardMagic could produce my business card, I wasn't using the app. The reason was because it looked and felt a little dated to me.

Really? Your third "difference" is that the one you ripped off is 'dated'? Really? OK...

Damian Surr wrote:4) There's no gravity in BizCardMagic. Shaking an object around in Card2phone is just plain fun! That's all built in to Card Now.

You move the card around with your hand, making it seem much more like a real card, rather than shaking an image of a card around. Not an improvement.

Damian Surr wrote:5) We can add more cool stuff because we coded it

Great. I asked for a list of differences...

Damian Surr wrote:Pretty much all magic effects are built on what went before them.

What was BizCard built on. Oh yes, it was original.

Damian Surr wrote:I completely agree that the fundamental purpose of the two apps are the same. They both want to put a business card in someone's hand in a memorable way.

So, it's not dated looking (in your opinion), you can shake the card around pointlessly and YOU CODED IT?

Brilliant.

Think I'll pass.

Thanks for trying to justify your unoriginality though. It was funny reading!

Jesus, TWO Damians? I wouldn't pay the goat any mind mr Surr, he is the self appointed police of the magic world. Without even seeing his posts (I have him blocked) I'm sure he has accused you of being some sort of scam artist.

billmccloskey wrote:Jesus, TWO Damians? I wouldn't pay the goat any mind mr Surr, he is the self appointed police of the magic world. Without even seeing his posts (I have him blocked) I'm sure he has accused you of being some sort of scam artist.

Bill, why not put in your sig that you have me on ignore rather than posting once a week about it?

Also, try making some contributions to the forum yourself. I'm sure your insight into magic is well worth reading. Much more so than you continually posting about the little hard on you have for me.